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Mark Briggs, author of Entrepreneurial Journalism and director of Digital Media at KING 5, Seattle, got people thinking at ISOJ by going over the six traits for entrepreneurs. First of all, you have to be able to get some funding. You need to be able to make the ask, said Briggs, or you are not an entrepreneur. Then you need to be able to sell, convince others about the valueread more

AGBeat No hoodies required When someone says successful entrepreneurial traits that could inject youth into your company, who do you think of? If you said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, you’re in the majority, and you’re probably...

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The winning project of the weekend-long hackathon — “Dimensions” — enables users to filter through news feeds based on time, location and friends’ interest. KING 5?s Mark Briggs told me that of the 32 part...

It's not surprising that many of the traits of successful entrepreneurs overlap with the traits of successful social media entrepreneurs.
Any entrepreneur knows that in order to achieve any modicum of success in their niche or indus...